CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 170

!

)

ONFIDENTIA L.

Hongkong.

C. O.

34035

Rrc

REC 22 SEP 05

167

Government House,

Hongkong, 16th. August, 1905.

sir,

MO

17018

Referring to the 2nd. paragraph of

your Confidential Despatch of the 25th. May, 1905, in which

you ask to be informed of the reply that should be returned

to the question of the Postmaster-General as to the provi-

-sion made under the new Postal Arrangement between this

Colony and China for the conveyance by Chinese Service of

mails from one British Ship of war to another, I have the

honour to inform you that there will be no alteration from

the practice at present in existence where the Imperial

Chinese Post Office handles mails for such ships at places

at which there is no British Agency. The mail bags are for-

-warded by the Chinese Post Office at which they are handed

in to the Chinese Post Office of destination and are called

for there by the Naval Postman or in special cases are

delivered by arrangement to His Majesty's Consul. For

RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

&C • >

&C -

instance